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Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes – Delicious Meals Fast!

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These easy 3 ingredient dinner recipes will make it easy for you to make cheap and delicious meals your family will love without spending a lot of time in the kitchen!

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Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes – Delicious Meals Fast!

This post is dedicated to my friend and neighbor Katie. She came over and we were talking and she said “I need some super easy 3 ingredient or less recipes for dinner”. As I was telling her about a couple of these recipes she had no idea these could be made and so easy too! She grew up with a mom who never cooked so she didn’t learn how to cook either and now would like to learn.  If you are new to cooking at home try some of these recipes to get you started and get a good cookbook to help you along the way. Even if you are an old pro try some for those days when you just need something quick and easy!

Easy Creamy Chicken Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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Easy Creamy Chicken

4 boneless chicken breasts
1 can cream soup (cream of chicken, cream of mushroom or cream of celery)

Bake at 275 degrees, covered with foil, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours until the chicken is cooked through. Serve over rice and or cooked vegetables.

You can also make this easy dinner recipe in the crockpot. Just dump everything in and cook for 4-6 hours on low.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Salsa Chicken Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Salsa Chicken

6 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless OR 6-8 chicken pieces
2 cups salsa
1 cup shredded cheese (Cheddar or Mexican Blend)

Place the chicken in a crockpot and pour the salsa on top. Cook for 1 1/2 – 2 hours on high. Place cheese on top and let it melt during the last 10-15 minutes.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Sweet Pork Chops Or Ribs Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Sweet Pork Chops Or Ribs

4 pork chops (They can still be frozen.) OR 2-3 lbs. pork ribs
12 oz. bottle chili sauce
1 cup grape jelly

Grease the crockpot with oil cooking spray. Place the pork chops in the crockpot. In a bowl, mix the chili sauce and grape jelly. Pour the mixture on the pork chops. Cook on low for 6-8 hours (8 hours if frozen). These pork chops or ribs will fall of the bone! Super Yummy!

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Ritz Baked Chicken Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Ritz Chicken

1 lb. chicken (boneless skinless), cut into strips
1/2 bottle of ranch dressing
1 sleeve of Ritz Crackers, crushed (generic is fine)
salt and pepper

Place the ranch dressing and the Ritz crackers in separate bowls. Grease a 9×13 inch pan. Salt and pepper the chicken. Dip the chicken in ranch dressing and then dip in the crackers. Place in the pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25-35 minutes.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Creamy Chicken Tacos Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Creamy Chicken Tacos

1 can Rotel tomatoes OR 1 cup salsa
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/2 bar cream cheese ( 4 oz.)

Place the chicken and Rotel or salsa into a greased crockpot.  Cook on low for 6-8 hours. 30 minutes before serving, place cream cheese on top. No need to stir. Finish cooking 30 minutes. When ready to serve, stir and break up chicken. Serve with tortillas.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Chicken Cacciatore Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Chicken Cacciatore

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts or 4-8 chicken pieces
1 bottle spaghetti sauce
2-3 cups vegetables like zucchini, mushrooms and onions

Grease the crockpot. Add the chicken and spaghetti sauce. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. One hour before serving, add vegetables and continue cooking. Serve over pasta.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Beef Tacos Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Beef Tacos

1 lb. ground beef
1 pkg. taco seasoning (or homemade)
1 can Rotel tomatoes and green chilis

Put all in a greased crockpot and cook for 5-7 hours on low. Stir ever few hours to break up beef. (can be done before if you are gone all day).  Serve on taco shells. 

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Barbecue Meatballs Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Barbecue Meatballs

25 frozen fully cooked meatballs ( half 32 oz. bag) 
1 cup grape jelly

1 cup Barbecue sauce

Combine sauces in your crock-pot and stir until combined. Add meatballs and stir until they are coated with the sauce. Cook on high for 3 hours.
 Serve over rice.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Sausage Biscuits And Gravy Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Sausage Biscuits and Gravy

1 lb. breakfast sausage 
2 cans refrigerator biscuits (10 to a can so 20 total)
2 cans cream of mushroom soup

Brown and drain the sausage. Place 1 can of biscuits in the bottom of a greased slow cooker. Top with half of the brown sausage and then 1 can of cream of mushroom soup. Repeat the layers. Cook 4 hours on low.

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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3 Ingredient Dr. Pepper Pork

1 can Dr. Pepper
1 packet onion soup mix (or homemade)
2-3 lbs. pork roast

Grease crockpot and place pork roast in crock pot. Sprinkle pork with onion soup mix. Pour the Dr. Pepper over the pork until it is almost covered in the crockpot. Cook on high for 4-5 hours. Drain juice and shred and serve with BBQ sauce if desired on buns. 

 

Easy 3 Ingredient Ranch Chicken And Potatoes Recipe - Easy 3 Ingredient Dinner Recipes
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Ranch Chicken and Potatoes

4 skinless boneless chicken breast
2 cups ranch dressing
4 large potatoes, cubed
paprika (optional)

Put chicken on the bottom of crockpot, add potatoes, cover in ranch and sprinkle with paprika if desired. Cook 4-5 hours on low.   If you like firm potatoes cook for less time and if you like soft potatoes cook longer.

 

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Comments

  1. Teri Thomsen says

    July 30, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    For the creamy chicken recipe – do you add any water to the can of cream of soup when you make recipe in the crock pot?

    Reply
    • Jill says

      July 30, 2015 at 3:29 pm

      No you don’t need too.

      Reply
      • donna b says

        September 16, 2018 at 8:34 am

        Hi Jill: don’t know if you can get this where you are, but sometimes I used cream of onion soup. it comes out pretty tasty.

        Reply
        • Jill says

          September 17, 2018 at 12:19 pm

          Hi Donna yes I can get this. As a matter of fact I am the one who usually deals with all of these questions and they come straight to me. Using the onion soup on this I imagine would taste really good too so thanks for the idea.

          Reply
  2. Trudy says

    July 30, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    These recipies are so easy and they look scrumptious, I will be trying all of them–Thank you so much

    Reply
  3. Denis says

    August 3, 2015 at 12:22 am

    The pork chop or ribs recipe calls for 12 bottle chili. Twelve??? You mean 1/2 as in one half, I hope or this is made for people used to eating food not made on this planet because I would be ejected from the planet by eating this food. LOL

    Reply
    • Jill says

      August 3, 2015 at 10:01 am

      Thanks for the heads up Denis. It is suppose to be 12 oz. bottle.

      Reply
  4. Sarah says

    December 30, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    Whats the best type of potato to use? every time ive done something similar to this in the past, my potatoes never cook all the way through 🙁

    Reply
    • Jill says

      December 30, 2015 at 6:57 pm

      I don’t think it makes any difference what kind you use. You may need to just cook it a little longer because crock pots cook at so many different temperatures that yours may just not be hot enough so needs longer cooking. Be sure to cube the potatoes too and if all of these fail then nuke the potatoes for a minute or two before putting them in the crock pot.

      Reply
  5. Brandy says

    January 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    For the Ritz chicken if you don’t like Ranch dressing what other dressing would you recommend?

    Reply
    • Tawra says

      January 15, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      You could mix some mayo with parmesan cheese.

      Reply
    • Susan Jones says

      January 22, 2018 at 12:39 pm

      I don’t like ranch either and wonder if you could substitute another dressing?

      Reply
      • Jill says

        January 22, 2018 at 6:47 pm

        You could use another creamy type of dressing although you wouldn’t have the same flavor because of the spices that are used in the ranch dressing

        Reply
      • Susan says

        September 13, 2018 at 5:26 am

        Creamy Italian would work!

        Reply
  6. Mvie says

    September 4, 2018 at 12:51 pm

    For the beef taco- is there a skillet version for that?

    Reply
    • Jill says

      September 4, 2018 at 12:59 pm

      Yes all you need to do is fry the ground beef, drain and add rest (drain tomatoes and chilies). You might simmer for about 5-10 mins in the frying pan or while you are getting other things for the meal ready. I never use a crock pot for this.

      Reply
      • Mvie says

        September 6, 2018 at 3:59 pm

        Would the same skillet version apply for the chicken tacos?

        Reply
        • Jill says

          September 7, 2018 at 12:08 pm

          Yes. A crock pot is nothing more that a pan that you just cook on low with. You can make the same things in the oven or on the stove as in a crock pot. I don’t even own a crock pot now. The low temp on a crock pot is the same as something cooked at 250 in the oven in a pan, the high temp is the same as 350 degrees in the oven. In a skillet just turn it down to very low or simmer.

          Reply
  7. Brandy says

    September 21, 2018 at 10:21 am

    Hi, for the 3 ingredient ranch chicken and potatoes it says 2 cups ranch so I’m guessing it is the regular ranch and not the dry mix?

    Reply
    • Jill says

      September 22, 2018 at 7:41 am

      Yes it is the regular.

      Reply

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